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by Sukotto 15y ago
Particularly memorable books I read (or re-read) this year: - Don't Make Me Think by Krug: http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/032134... - Apartment Therapy by Gillingham-Ryan http://www.amazon.com/Apartment-Therapy
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I hesitated to start. Partly because I found the original Harry Potter kind of boring/frustrating. And partly because it's fanfiction, a sort of writing I do not normally enjoy. Still, I found it enjoyable and worth my time. Even though I t
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I'm starting to think LEGO is evil(sinker.tumblr.com)
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My go-to commentary on this general topic is the classic penny-arcade comic "John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory" (Normal Person) + (Anonymity) + (Audience) = (Total Fuckwad) http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/
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I'm talking at a simpler level than you are. From what I can tell (and remember), elementary & high school math is specifically designed to take you from 0 to calculus. (well, maybe not ALL the way unless you take AP math) Personally, I
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I wish schools taught math leading to statistics and probability instead of leading to calculus. I believe that would much more useful for the average citizen.
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"Everyone else is doing it" doesn't cut it with Mom or with me. :)
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It might sound both harsh and draconian, Yes, it certainly does. but it’s a necessary feature of a modern app store. Really? I don't see anything in the article to support that conclusion.
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There's a difference between dealing with a little boredom or muckwork in a project (there's always some of that) and the sort of relentless, day-long, can't do anything procrastination the OP describes. Sure, we all have those little job
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I find procrastination is a symptom, not the actual problem. The very root of the problem is that I'm either faced with something I just don't want to do or can see that the NEXT thing is something I really don't want to face. It usually me
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They're a sovereign state. They even have their own passports. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City
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I suggest you backup your bookmarks on a regular basis using the handy export page http://pinboard.in/export/ You might also want to tone down the snark.
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Really timely article. Thanks. December is a good time to re-evaluate these sorts of things, and to book time for the ones requiring more effort (learning vim?) since many people have a lull at work at this time of year. My own contributio
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When asked for your race, answer "mongrel" http://yarchive.net/risks/mongrel.html Quoting from the anecdote: All of my known forebears came from Europe, mostly from Southern Germany with a few from England, Ireland, and Scotland. A glanc
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There's got to be a better way According to this TED talk from Dec 2010, there is: http://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_rhodes.html Deborah Rhodes: A tool that finds 3x more breast tumors, and why it's not available to you
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I hear ya... This is something I struggle with too. Long workday at Mega Corp., 45min+ drive-commute each way, 3 kids (7, 5, 2), a spouse with a highly variable work schedule, and ongoing charity work. It's really, really hard to make tim
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Patrick. when AB testing your podcast, please try doing a 20 minute "snack size". I find I mostly have little pockets of time (i.e. when washing up after dinner) when I can listen to a podcast but anything longer than that requires me to s
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2011 advent calendar for web geeks(24ways.org)
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Two hours total? I wish I could do as well. When I fly (as infrequently as possible), I have to budget at least 5.5 hours from my front door to boarding the plane. Here's my time budget based on 10 years of flying out of New York City fro
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Thank you for this article. As per the Pragmatic Programmer, I thought I would learn Python this year. It's been a tremendously frustrating experience getting a workable stack installed. I wish the famous " One -- and preferably only one
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I don't trade. I help traders better understand the market conditions so they can make better trading decisions. Mostly through pulling together different types of publicly available (scraping) and purchased data (or, you could call me a
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I find this sort of article extremely interesting. (I'm in the commodity trading space, mostly natural gas and electricity) Beware the fallacy where you believe everyone around you has similar interests; likes; dislikes; pop-culture backgro
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Acme Labs has much the same problem. Jef's (2005) article about handling his mail is still a good read (though a bit dated now) http://acme.com/mail_filtering/
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I meant to vote you up and hit the wrong arrow. Sorry :(
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I had no idea I could do this and can hardly wait to try it. [edit: The author says it works for C#, F#, VB.NET, etc) in VisualStudio] The related article goes into more depth including a list of DOs and DON'Ts: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jar
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I hesitated to start. Partly because I found the original Harry Potter kind of boring/frustrating. And partly because it's fanfiction, a sort of writing I do not normally enjoy. I'm most of the
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Yes. I particularly liked the "Parisian Love" super bowl ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU Brilliantly done.
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The account "dear.sophie.lee" has been deleted for violation of the Google Names policy. The Names Policy requires that you use your actual, legal name. Nicknames, titles, etc. are not permitted. We emailed you followin
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Perl used to be cool. It used to bring a lot of functionality and flexibility that you just couldn't get anywhere else. But it's not unique anymore. And it no longer brings anything truly amazing to the table that you can't find in a comp
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Mapping language communities using Twitter and Chrome language detection(flickr.com)
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